The main industry was Nottingham Lace, women either sat together in groups picking the threads from ribbons of lace fabric, or individually in their own home, but the pay for this type of work was appalling. As this film shows some women worked very long hours to gain enough bread money to live on. It also shows a second hand shop, many locals visited these places to save money on clothes and shoes for their school children. My friend Lorraine Crofts grew up with their parents who ran a second hand shop in St Ann’s Well Road, and later had a similar shop in Arkwright Street, in The Meadows, Nottingham.
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